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L. S. HODGDON PRICE EXHIBITING DEVICE Filed April 13 lllllllllmnw" l Inlnllllllmu i v 'mum lull Tllillllllllll Oct.- 16 1923.

Patented ct. 1,6, 1923.

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application sied april 13, 1922. serial No. 552,072.

fields of usefulness it is well adapted and designed for use as a price exhibitor for goods exposed for sale in stores and shopsfkr principal object ofthe invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive exhibitor for prices or other indicia,` wherein the figures or other indicia marks may be exhibited in different colors at will` without requiring any change in theelements which bear the figures or other indicating marks. The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the invention will more. fully appear from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the distinctive features of novelty will be pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings Fig. 1 is a front view with portions broken away of a pricel exhibitor embodying the invention; i i

Fig. 2 is an end view thereof; and

Fig. 3 is an elevation with portions broken away showing another application of the invention.

The device may be produced of any suitable material, though I prefer to use celluloid or high grade cardboard such as bristol board or light metal such as aluminum. A sheet or plate of the selected materi al is shaped or bent into a U-shape providing a back wall 10, preferably rectangular, a relatively narrow base portion 11, and a front wall 12 extending upward in parallelism with, and spaced a small distance from the rear wall 10. This front wall 12 has the major portion of its upper half cut out to form a window opening 12"L through which the figures to be exhibited are exposed. The back wall 10 is provided intermediate the height thereof with one or w more pivot studs 13 to which a set of card figures, as shown.

strips 14 are pivoted from one vendthereof These card strips may also'be of celluloid or aluminum, or any other strong flexible and light material.. As herein illustratively shown there are four of these pivot studs spaced apart lengthwise of the device, this perinittinganynumber of figures up to four to be exhibited simultaneously. It will be understood that for certain uses the device may be produced with a lesser `or greater number of the sets of figures according to requirements. Each of the sets'of cards or strips 14 has the respective cards therey ,i i

of cut out in the manner of a stencil Lto produce figures from zero to nine as indicated at l5. Thus it will be seen that by shifting selected ones of the number cards liso that they extend upward from their pivots, they will be exposed through the window opening 122L while the remainderof the cards will be concealed in the lower part of the device in the pocket 16 provided between the lower portions of the back and fronty walls. In thus shifting they selected cards `14 to exhibiting position, the cards to be exhibited ofthe inner two sets may be readily sprung out over the pivots 13 of the adjacent set, it being noted that these pivots are secured to the back of the holder only. Suitable means is provided for exhibiting other requisite indicia in conjunction with the selected numbers, such` as `a dollar sign and a decimal point, and if desired a cents mark. These Vmarks may` be borne on certain of the number cards` which may be made wider for this purpose,`

rIhus the dollars card having a lateral extensionl 17a by which y Ait is vpivoted to the `first of the pivot studs 13 at the left. Adecimal point may be stenciled in another elbow card 18 which" may be pivoted s0 as to exhibit the decimal point when desired intermediate two of `the In casea cents sign should be used it might be borne in like manner by another elbow card, (not shown) at the right hand end of the device. A card or sheet]` 19 bearing a surface colored according t0 the color it is desired that the `figures shall exhibit, is,` slippedA in at the top next to the back 10 and limited as".

to its downward movement by the pivots 13. This card or sheet is of a dimension so as to extend behind all of the gures and marks that may be exposed by the pivvoted cards 14. In the practice of the invention a plurality of these colored sheets 19 colored in diiferent colors may be supplied with the device so as to render it adaptable for displaying the figures-in any required number of colors at different times. Thusthe device is specially adapted for use in inarked-down or advertised sales, where by the simple expedient, of" slipping in a different colored sheet 19 from the usual or standard color, the attention of the public may be directed to the factthat the` articles with price marks so colored are the specially advertised or marked-down ones. For example a yellow tag sale may be advertised, and all goods included in such sale would have their price marks indicated in yellow by merelyv slipping in" yellow sheets 19 in "the respective price exhibitors. ldlliile the invention is thus well adapted and designed for use in a changeable price exhibitor, it is also in a broader aspect adapted for other uses to indicate pricereductions or other marks to which it is desired t0 attract particular attention. rfhus in Figure 3 I show a holder 2 0 which may be produced from va celluloid sheet or the like folded to provide a back and a front 20:t with the front stenciled out as indica-ted at 21 to give the desired announrement. This announcement may be exhibit*` ed in any desired color by slipping a suitably colored sheet 22 in place next to the front 20LL of the holder. Thus a blue sheet may be so placed next to the front of the holder to exhibit the announcement in blue lette-rs, while one or more other cards in other colors as indicated at 23 may be housed in the holder, in back of the sheet 22 for reserve use to exhibit other colors when desired. I am aware that the invention may be embodied in other specific invase@ forms withoutdeparting from the spirit or essential attributes thereof, and I therefore desire the present embodiment to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, reference being had to the appended claims rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of the invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A device of the kind described comprising a holder of sheet material bent to a` Ll-shape with a window opening in the upper portion of its front wall, a plurality of sets'of cards each bearing stenciled. indicia pivoted to the back wall of said holder intermediate the height thereof, whereby selected ones thereof may be swung upward to an exposed position back of said window opening with the remainder of such cards depending from their pivots in concealed position in the lower part of the holder, and a plurality `of sheets bearing selected and varied color surfaces adapted for selective insertion in said holder behind those of the stenciled cards that are in exposed position.

2. i device of the kind described comprising a holder having a `back wall and a front wall spaced therefrom, the front wall having a window opening in its upper portion, a plurality of sets of cards each bearing` stenciled indicia pivoted to the back of said holder for selective movement to an exposed position back of said window opening, or to a concealed position at will and a plurality of sheets bearing selected and ,varied colored surfaces adapted fior selective insertion in said holder behind those of the stenciled cards that are in exposed position.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification. 

